Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Review
I have been simply reading this book every night for a few minutes before eventually falling asleep and it has been effectively giving me incredible, apocalyptic nightmares that easily beat McCarthy’s dark vision of the near future (see The Road (Oprah’s Book Club) . I’ve usually kept up with climate science since the ’80s so I am no novice, but this book, along with Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition , Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture , When the Rivers Run Dry: Water–The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century , With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change and Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future join to make me really really uneasy about having grandkids. Too late, I had a kid. Highly recommended for science minded and usually lay people and anyone planning on procreating, but be forewarned, there is nowhere to run (if you have not figured that out already from the regular news of freakish record-breaking terrible weather around the globe this year). My correctly read cousin went to British Columbia to escape future climate change troubles, but I fear even that region is in trouble, as you will see in the chapter on Two Degrees (see: snowpack). by Lesley Thomas, origin of arctic warming novel Flight of the Goose